我猜这个英文书名是双关了短语“The Man Who Counts”（意思是“举足轻重的人”），这同时也是至少另一本书的书名（ http://www.amazon.com/The-Man-Counts-Poul-Anderson/dp/044151... ，是个挺棒的故事）。
I'd guess the English title is a play on the phrase "The Man Who Counts" (in the sense of 'who matters'), which is also the title of at least one book ( http://www.amazon.com/The-Man-Counts-Poul-Anderson/dp/044151... , a good tale).
也许我读过的最佳虚构描写是保罗·安德森（Poul Anderson）的《The Man Who Counts》：https://www.tor.com/2010/11/22/air-war-in-the-stone-age-poul... 这是一本科幻小说，讲的是一小群人试图在一颗处于战乱的外星球上求生。带领他们挺过难关的是个精明老练的商人，……
Perhaps the best fictional description I came across is Poul Anderson's The Man Who Counts: https://www.tor.com/2010/11/22/air-war-in-the-stone-age-poul... It's an SF book, you have a small group trying to survive in an alien world at war. The guy who pulls them through is the canny merchant,…
当年在我混的在家自学圈子里，《Flatland》备受推崇。有一本书明显不属于这个推荐书单，但我读它是因为我以为它会很硬核数学，书名叫《The Man Who Counts》，结果我完全理解岔了，读完之后还是一脸懵圈——因为我整本书都在眼巴巴等故事里出现数学部分，结果压根没有。
Flatland was highly recommended in homeschooling circles I ran in back in the day. A book that notably does not belong on this list but I read it because I thought it would be mathy has the title The Man Who Counts which I completely misinterpreted and continued to be befuddled by even after I finished reading it, having spent the entire book waiting for the math part of the story that never came.
我猜这个英文书名是双关了短语“The Man Who Counts”（意思是“举足轻重的人”），这同时也是至少另一本书的书名（ http://www.amazon.com/The-Man-Counts-Poul-Anderson/dp/044151... ，是个挺棒的故事）。
I'd guess the English title is a play on the phrase "The Man Who Counts" (in the sense of 'who matters'), which is also the title of at least one book ( http://www.amazon.com/The-Man-Counts-Poul-Anderson/dp/044151... , a good tale).
也许我读过的最佳虚构描写是保罗·安德森（Poul Anderson）的《The Man Who Counts》：https://www.tor.com/2010/11/22/air-war-in-the-stone-age-poul... 这是一本科幻小说，讲的是一小群人试图在一颗处于战乱的外星球上求生。带领他们挺过难关的是个精明老练的商人，……
Perhaps the best fictional description I came across is Poul Anderson's The Man Who Counts: https://www.tor.com/2010/11/22/air-war-in-the-stone-age-poul... It's an SF book, you have a small group trying to survive in an alien world at war. The guy who pulls them through is the canny merchant,…
当年在我混的在家自学圈子里，《Flatland》备受推崇。有一本书明显不属于这个推荐书单，但我读它是因为我以为它会很硬核数学，书名叫《The Man Who Counts》，结果我完全理解岔了，读完之后还是一脸懵圈——因为我整本书都在眼巴巴等故事里出现数学部分，结果压根没有。
Flatland was highly recommended in homeschooling circles I ran in back in the day. A book that notably does not belong on this list but I read it because I thought it would be mathy has the title The Man Who Counts which I completely misinterpreted and continued to be befuddled by even after I finished reading it, having spent the entire book waiting for the math part of the story that never came.